Try installing bleachbit.  It might be able to handle the snapshots, etc.

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Turns out that this does work for EBS volumes:
>
> # attach volume to instance
> ebs=/dev/xvdj2
> shred --iterations=0 --zero --verbose ${ebs}
> od -bc ${ebs}
> # detach volume from instance
>
> The attaching/detaching happen via the API or the management console.
>
> Now to figure out how to wipe snapshots and S3 objects.
>
> Hope everyone had a festive Thanksgiving.
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
>
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Scott Granneman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Sounds right to me, Robert. Email Jans & ask him.
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> Contact info at http://granneman.tel
>>
>> On Nov 4, 2011, at 5:43 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone wiped an EBS volume under Linux on AWS?  If so, how?
>>>
>>> I imagine it's just a matter of mounting the EBS as another volume and
>>> running shred/wipe on /dev/sda (or whatever is the device).  Or is
>>> there more to it?
>>>
>>> The closest google search I could find was this one, which is more
>>> about securing public AMIs:
>>>
>>> http://alestic.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?blog_id=1&tag=EBS&limit=20
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> - Robert
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Talking about cloud:
>>>>
>>>> http://aws.amazon.com/free/
>>>>
>>>> Linux works pretty well with that.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> - Robert
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Thomas Kirk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Are we meeting Sunday?
>>>>> Any particular topics?
>>>>> Will apple continue to update its os as they focus on a cloud 
>>>>> environment? How well will the linux variants work with a cloud 
>>>>> environment? Thomas Kirk
>>>>
>>>
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